Sierra Romero’s athletic prowess has carried her to great heights on the softball field. Thursday evening she combined that ability with a thinking person’s approach at the plate to spark the USSSA Pride in the National Pro Fastpitch playoffs.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Three-time LSU All-American Bailey Landry of the Texas Charge was selected to the All-National Pro Fastpitch League team in the outfield, named the NPF Rookie of the Year and honored as this year’s Jennie Finch Award winner, the NPF announced Wednesday.

Late in the first quarter of LSU’s win over Texas A&M in November, Drake Davis raced downfield on the kickoff coverage team, sought the Aggies returner and corralled him for the first tackle of his college career.

For the fourth year in a row, The Advocate's Ross Dellenger is one of 60 national sports reporters voting in the Associated Press college football poll. Here's a look at his preseason ballot. The full poll is released Aug. 21.

The PGA Tour enters the final week of its 2016-17 regular season with Thursday’s first round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. The four-tournament FedEx Cup playoffs begin Aug. 24 with The Northern Trust in Old Westbury, N…

For a week of preseason camp, LSU’s offense hummed along without its starting center, Will Clapp, and its starting left tackle, K.J. Malone — arguably the two most important positions on the offensive line.

After finishing one step off the medal stand in the 200 meters final Thursday, former LSU All-America sprinter Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake was not going to be denied again Saturday, the penultimate day of the world championships.

A day after Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake came up short in his bid to win a medal at at the world championships, another former LSU sprints star, Kimberlyn Duncan, was sixth in the women’s 200 final Friday in London.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Brandon Harris left LSU looking for a clean start in his final season as a college quarterback. The graduate transfer figures he's found the perfect opportunity at North Carolina, from the open starting job to a fast-paced sch…